Covent Garden

A Young Dancer at Covent Garden

Bow Street opposite the Royal Opera House
LONDON

Left: The Young Dancer by Enzo Plazzotta - photo by Les Baker and reproduced by his kind permission.

This statue of a young ballet dancer sits in Bow Street opposite the entrance to the Royal Opera House.  It was sculpted by Enzo Plazzotta, an Italian who was born in Mestre, near Venice, but who spent more than half his life in London.  He loved ballet and this state is an excellent example of his work. He died in 1981.

The Royal Opera House is the home to The Royal Ballet, one of the most outstanding ballet companies in the world and it is highly appropriate that this sculpture is sited here in front of the Opera House.

Nearest Tube station: Covent Garden

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